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Decomposing the ethnic gap in rural Vietnam: 1993 to 2004

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posted on 2023-06-08, 00:10 authored by Bob Baulch, Hung T Pham, Barry ReillyBarry Reilly
This paper examines and decomposes the gap in per capita expenditures between majority and minority ethnic groups in rural Vietnam between 1993 and 2004. Over this period, the real expenditure gap between rural Kinh and Chinese headed households and the ethnic minorities increased by 14.6 percent. Approximately two-fifths of the mean gap is found to be due to differences in household endowments (in particular demographic structure and education), and at least half due to difference in returns to these endowments. Geographic variables explain less than one-fifth of the gap. Over half of the increase in the mean gap is linked to temporal changes in unobservable factors, and less than a quarter to the majority's endowments improving more rapidly than those of the minorities. Broadly similar findings are detected using quantile regression analysis. These findings raise important questions concerning the drivers of the disadvantage faced by Vietnam's ethnic minorities

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Publication status

  • Published

Journal

Oxford Development Studies

ISSN

1360-0818

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Issue

1

Volume

40

Page range

87-117

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  • Economics Publications

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Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2013-02-12

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